PHOTO: According to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, the proposed changes by the Select Committee will not solve affordability issues
The Overseas Investment Amendment Bill aims to ban overseas buyers from purchasing existing houses, and to “ensure that the market for our homes is a New Zealand market not an international one,” Associate Finance Minister David Parker said today.
“We believe that from the most expensive seaside and lakeside properties to the most modest homes in our towns and cities New Zealanders should not be outbid by wealthier foreign buyers.”
The Select Committee recommended changes to simplify buying residential land for commercial purposes, that aims to help to create new jobs, and “have also rationalised forestry investment by including forestry rights, which are a means of buying forests which needs to be covered, and then applying a light-handed regime to encourage foreign direct investment in forests”.
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